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The American history and encyclopedia of music .., 1908
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1chime
2swinging either the bells or the clappers inside them.
32. A set of bells with the hammers that strike them, often placed in a music-box or an organ, to produce the effect of a chime.
43. The sound produced by bells rung in harmony.
5chime-barrel
6A revolving barrel or cylinder fitted with pegs. As the barrel revolves these pegs operate levers by which a chime or carillon is played.
7chiming machine
8A machine for chiming bells mechanically, which consists of a revolving drum studded with pins so placed that they pull the ropes of the bells, causing them to chime.
9chimney
10A small tube passing through the cover of certain stopped organ pipes, causing the air to vibrate in two equal columns, thus making the tone more brilliant.
11chinare (kē-nä'-rē) It. v.
12To clamor, to chime.
13Chinese music. See hiven.
14Chinese crescent
15Chinese hat
16Chinese pavilion
17A musical instrument, now practically obsolete, used in military bands. It consisted of a pole with several transverse brass plates in crescent shape surmounted by a conical pavilion resembling a Chinese hat. To all these parts are hung a number of small bells. This instrument is held vertically and is played by being shaken up and down to emphasize the time of the music. More common names are the German Schellenbaum and the French chapeau chinois.
18chirimia (tchē-rē-mē'-ä) Spa. n.
19The oboe, the clarinet. From chirimoya, the name of a fruit; the pear-shaped portion of the oboe in which the mouthpiece is inserted. Equivalent to Birne (Ger.).
20chirogymnast (ki-rō-jīm'-nāst) Eng. n. from Grk.
21Finger-trainer: a square board to which is attached a cross bar to which rings are attached by a set of springs. It is used to exercise the fingers of piano and organ players.
22chiroplast (ki'-rō-plāst) Eng. n. from Grk.
23An apparatus, invented by Logier about 1810, to keep the fingers of young piano-players in correct position. It consisted of two smooth wooden rails attached parallel to the piano keyboard, and a pair of brass frames or open gloves which held the wrist up and compelled the fingers to strike the keys vertically.
24chitarra (kē-tär'-rä) It. n.
25A guitar. The Italian guitar, strung with wire instead of gut strings. The cither was strung in the same way.
26chitarra col arco (kē-tär'-rä kōl är'-kō) It.
27Guitar with the bow: a violin with sides gently curved like the guitar instead of having corners like the violin.
28chitarrone (kē-tär-rō'-nē)
29A theorbo or double-necked lute having a very long neck. It had wire instead of gut strings, and two sets of tuning pegs, the upper set carrying twelve and the lower set eight strings. The very long neck permitted of great development of the bass. It was used in Italy in the Sixteenth Century to accompany the voice and it was also used in orchestra. It was similar to the archlute and theorbo.
30chiucchiurlaia (kē-ook-kē-oor-lä'-yä) It. n.
31Confused chatter: a buzzing or humming sound.
32chiudenda col aria (kē-oo-dēn'-dā kōl ā'-rī-ä) It.
33Ending with the air.
34chiudendo (kē-oo-dēn'-dō) It. adj.
35Closing, ending: as used in the direction, chiudendo colla prima strose, ending with the first verse.
36chiudendo col ritornello (kē-oo-dēn'-dō kōl rē-toor-nēl'-lō) It.
37Ending with the symphony, or with the postlude.
38chiuso (kē-oo'-sō) It. part and adj.
39Closed: as used in con bocca chiuso, a direction meaning to be performed with closed mouth, hummed, also used as in canone chiuso, a canon, in which only the principal part is written out fully.
40Chladni's figures (khlät'-nē)
41Experiments in electric figures made by Chladni, a scientist, born at Wittenburg in 1756. These experiments, which he carried on chiefly by means of a plate of rosin covered with sand, are discussed in his books, Discoveries concerning the Theory of Sounds and A Treatise on Acoustics.
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